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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by SilasX on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:48AM (#27036993)
Hate to be the choosing beggar, and I appreciate all the answers, but ... everyone is answering about how long that 70 digit job would take now, when what I meant was, how big a number could you factor “overnight” with similar cost hardware.
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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by zsmi on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:47PM (#27045960)
Not exactly the same, but close.

https://github.com/eniac/faas

The purpose of the FaaS (Factoring as a Service) project is to demonstrate that 512-bit integers can be factored in only a few hours, for less than $100 of compute time in a public cloud environment.

512b = 155 decimal digits.

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by SilasX on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:42AM (#27051356)
Cool, thanks!
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